Castle (2009 - )

Beckett: CIA is a popular choice with you.
Castle: Well yes. Law of averages demands I will eventually be right

So what happens when a network goes to Nathan Fillion
and say, hey we got a show where you get to be a writer who's also a
detective. Well of course that be enough to attract his attention. Add
the name Rick Castle and costar Stana Katic as Kate Beckett and we have Castle.
Airing March 9, 2009, it follows Rick Castle, a big time mystery writer
who just killed off his main character Derek Storm. When he gets
called in questioning by Beckett, he learns that someone is killing by
copying his books. So of course he helps catch the bad guy and gets the
hots for Beckett in the process. With his connections with the mayor
he gets to follow her around for idea's and we get a series. The 3rd
season began airing Sept. 20th, 2010. The show is on Monday night at
10pm EST on ABC.

So I had doubts of getting into a new Fillion show, simply because I
didn't want another show to end after the 1st season. I still haven't
seen Driveyet, simply
because I didn't get a chance to see it while it was on TV, and the
internet has failed to provide me with easy access to the show. So
this new one didn't make me jump until it got a second season and then I
watched it. Of course it was great, and it seemed they asked Fillion
to just be himself, and also a writer detective. The show has a basic
formula of; opening on Castle doing something funny or doing something
with his daughter, a murder, opening credits, then him meeting up with
Beckett and solving a murder of the week. This changes slightly episode
to episode. Like the one that mainly focused on there units cop Javier Esposito.
For a weekly murder/ detective show, it manages to get a good amount of
humor into it without making it a comedy. Overall it's a serious show
that deals with a single father trying to keep up with his daughter who
will soon be graduating and going off to college, and a murder detective
who still has her mother's unsolved murder haunting her, and two people
who just won't admit they have feelings for each other no matter what.
Ever week also brings new problems that affects the team in different
ways. Also the character's have a lot of depth to them, reveling there
background at a little bit at a time. It even stands on it's own with
what, a million cop/ mystery/ detective shows out there? (Insert joke
about 50 Law & Order's/ CSI's here) Though they do have breaks
in the mystery with Castle's books and parties, or time with his
daughter and overbearing mother. The guest star's vary, with a few
reoccurring such as Robert Picardo, and Phil LaMarr. They even put in real writers like James Patterson
to fill Castle's poker games. The show has a good amount of
mysteries, with the real murderers surprising me from time to time.
They also love to drop in references to Fillion's past shows, mainly
Firefly (like the time when Castle dressed as Mal for Halloween, leading to his daughter to say "there's no cows in space" or the aiming for his head line).

So with the 3rd season starting and the show seeming to gain a good
following, now that fan's realize it might be here for awhile, my fears
seem to be misplaced. The cast is good, story sound, and Fillion
aplenty. I have to say this one's reel good and give it 5 outa 5. Oh
and Alexis, there are cows in space, leave Mal alone.